Introduce this Weekend League Team Featuring 1,800 Premier League Appearances

How can you enhance a stellar experienced team who have claimed back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from 32 matches?

Bring in a raft of ex- professionals who have competed at the top tier of club football and global football as you pursue further honors.

One Manchester team fields an amateur veterans squad with nine former Premier League players in their active squad.

222 Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are situated in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Tier.

The squad list this season features nine ex- Premier League players, with a combined over 1,800 top-flight games.

The elite squad also boasts over 220 top division goals and over 320 international caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their last home game versus defending champions their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also features former pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League players have won fifteen big trophies and moved for total transfer sums of about £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the team in preseason this summer through good friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My mate Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still love the game and you feel you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who turn up and see are happy and to give someone's moment if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at the club, Niasse made his debut at defender.

"That's a little different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

"I warn my centre-back 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue running.

"That movement is what I'm after. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with Cisse's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Division with three wins from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over 200 Premier League games.

"It was going round like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

"I felt I was a little starstruck playing against him to be honest.

"Also Heskey got on and he's has 60-odd English appearances.

"We held our own for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

"Our group really have not ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a bunch of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the opposition vets side, who won the Top Division championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil up and had a